Fishers in the snow: Living with divergences

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пятница, 31 января 2014 г.

Living with divergences


12_monkeys_2


S. Weinberg wrote a paper "Living with infinities" devoted partially to the memory of Gunnar Källén. Also he outlined there his personal view on the problem of renormalization. Good for him.

I just take his title and refer to a movie clip where some live with divergences too. I rephrase L.J. Washington's sober words:

"It's a condition of mental divergence: we find ourselves in the Wilsonian world, being a part of intellectual elite and subjugating infinities. But even though the renormalization ideology is totally convincing for us in every way, nevertheless it is actually a construct of our psyche. We are mentally divergent. In that we escape certain unnamed realities that plague our lives here. When we stop appealing to it, we'll be well."


12_monkeys_3


(Behind L. J. Washington someone resembling P. Dirac solves a puzzle.)

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